A good front is half the battle in love or war.
A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.
The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.
What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.
Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.
Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.
A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Things are not what they seem.