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.

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

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