There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!
Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.