I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
HAPPINESS [is] ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED
Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family.
Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.