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

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

If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.

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 mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness.

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

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

Doubt is the brother of shame.