Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put us in an impossible situation.

'I'm not beautiful, I'm pretty!' (Angrily at age 2 and a half. After getting into his sister's toy makeup case and being called beautiful...)

'Dank Dank' (Reflecting his inability to accept compliments for several years.)

“If we call these foothills, can we call the little trees 'foot trees?''' (While driving in the foothills.)

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.