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

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

In America nature is autocratic, saying, "I am not arguing, I am telling you.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

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 ultimate concerns in its own way.

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 consistency in correcting his excesses, and the guidance they give him-will codetermine whether or not he eventually makes order out of necessary inner confusion and applies himself to the correction of disordered conditions. He needs freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that he cannot, in fact, make a choice.

Doubt is the brother of shame.