As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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.

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

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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