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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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