Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

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

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

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.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

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.

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

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

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

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

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