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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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. 

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

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.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.