You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solve….

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly..

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity..

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for ….

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play..

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords..

The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at his best, their ….

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly..

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding..

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice..

Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu….

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and….

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death..

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Aski….

The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy..

Personality, too, is destiny..

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others..

Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the ….

When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the crue….

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery..

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultima….