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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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.