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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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.