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

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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.

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

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

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

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

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