“… I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”

“[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.”

“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”

“Noble fathers have noble children.”

“It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal S...”

“Children inherit their parents' madness.”

“A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.”

“Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.”

“A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.”

“The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.”

“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.”