There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a fa….

Success in your life is not a single achievement. It's all that you do with others and for others.

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness..

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entra….

Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and c….

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old ….

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured..

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on..

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing some….

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better..

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a t….

A boy's best friend is his mother..

In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten..

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun..

The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more lu….

An angry father is most cruel towards himself..

A family stitched together with love seldom unravels..

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In….

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren..

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap..