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

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

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

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.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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

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.

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

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

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

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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.

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.