Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

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.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

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.