Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. — Pearl S. Buck. American writer (1892–1973) Age
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.