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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

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