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.

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

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.

Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.