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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their 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.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.