It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

Men are what their mothers made them.