My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

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

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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