Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.