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

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

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

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

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

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.