“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.''

'Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.'

'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

'The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.'