"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there." - Barbara Bush

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." - George Santayana

"Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them and with them." - William Saroyan

"Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The family is the country of the heart. There is an angel in the family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness." - Giuseppe Mazzini

"Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other." - Mother Teresa

"Little kindness' and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things." - Stephen Covey