I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other - I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.

The parents' age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend.

If you want to trace your family tree, all you have to do is to run for public office.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Sacred family!... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.