The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its times of being the last thing anyone would choose to do. Well, why shouldn't the care of babies and children be thought of that way too?

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy.