If you share a common ancestor with somebody, youre related to them. It doesnt mean that youre going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. – Henry Louis Gates

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. – Michel de Montaigne

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, its not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty. – John le Carre