These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

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

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

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.

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