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

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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