The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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