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

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

Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which pervades patterns of care.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

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.

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

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