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

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

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

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

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.