So much begins with parents

So much begins with parents. Their daily, persevering, unending love and interest and example teach lessons which reach deep into us; we are nurtured and our minds and souls are formed into shapes and disciplines that last all our lives.

I am nearly eighty now, and the work and love my father and mother devoted to their children, of whom I was the first-born, remain in my memory to this day; I recall vividly