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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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.

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.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

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.

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

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