My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

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

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.