Doubt is the brother of shame.

Personality, too, is destiny.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

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

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

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