My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not far from Prague, and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis. The Ginz family were from more or less the same milieu as the Kafkas. - Justin Cartwright

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This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

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All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. ― Milton Friedman

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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. — Benjamin Spock

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

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The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

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In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.

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