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

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.

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

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

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.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

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

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!