When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
“A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.”
“To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.”