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.

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

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

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

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.

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

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.