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

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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.

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

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

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

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