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

Personality, too, is destiny.

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

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

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

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.

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