Families are a lot like apple and blackberry crumble - sweet, fulfulling, made with love... and often not quite perfect, but who's complaining

This is an old one (but many of the good things often are).

On the cusp of a papal conclave, it also seems appropriate to quote from a Pope.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

JOHN PAUL II, London Observer, Dec. 7, 1986