Thoughts on families

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
—Mother Teresa

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family.
—Jim Butcher

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
—Richard Bach

After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
—Oscar Wilde

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
—Angela Schwindt

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
—Ugo Betti

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
—Leo Tolstoy

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

Siblings: Children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.
—Sam Levenson

Image: Mother Teresa: John Downing / Getty Images; Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde: Getty Images; Dodie Smith: Sasha / Getty Images; George Burns: Fred Prouser / Reuters