Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. – Charlotte Davis Kasl, Finding Joy, 1994

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself. – Alexander Graham Bell

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. – Gerald W. Johnson

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it. – Ken Keyes, Jr.