As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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

The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.