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

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

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.