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.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

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

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.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!