Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all..

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence,….

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

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….

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

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

If life is to be sustained, hope must remain..

Doubt is the brother of shame..

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

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

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

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….

Personality, too, is destiny..

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 ….

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 ….

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..