More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

We owe some of our family members respect, but do not owe any of them love.

Some people’s deaths would not have pained us had we not known that to them we were related.

The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.

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.

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.