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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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