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

Personality, too, is destiny.

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

In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there are always islands of self-sufficient order — on farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters — where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives: as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

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

You can actively flee, then, and you can actively stay put.

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