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

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

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.

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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.

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

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

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

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.