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.

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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

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

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

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.