Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs
Robert A. HeinleinThe most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
Robert A. Heinlein