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

The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

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

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

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

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.

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