Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

If life is to be sustained, hope must remain.

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.

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

When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

Personality, too, is destiny.