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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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