Personality, too, is destiny.

If life is to be sustained, hope must remain.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

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

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

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.

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.