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

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

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

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

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.