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

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.

Personality, too, is destiny.

If life is to be sustained, hope must remain.

When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.

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