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

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

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

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.

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.

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

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

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

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

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