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

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.

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

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

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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

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

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