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.

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.

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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