A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child, for one thing. To turn the fantasy into a program to make the child fly an airplane across the country, for example, isn't the point. That's the fulfillment of the parent's own dreams. That's different. Having a fantasy - which the child will either seek to fulfill or rebel against furiously - at least gives a child some expectation to meet or reject.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

By seeing differently, we do differently

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.