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

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.

You can actively flee, then, and you can actively stay put.

The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

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.