The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family. If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish'.

Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson (ed. Hachette UK, 2009) - ISBN: 9780748112616