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.

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

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.

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.

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

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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

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.

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

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