“I was a wonderful parent before I had children.”

The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;

Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to

No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.

Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;

From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.

The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,

I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.

Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories

We put him in touch with his inner reality.

From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.

And sometimes, from their envy of each other’s special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.

Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.

No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.

Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off – I’d rather stay in character.

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.

Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …