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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.