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

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

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

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.

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

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.