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

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.

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.

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

If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.

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

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