Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.