The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.

The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

Without the family, we are helpless before the State.