Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.
“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.”
“The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.”