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.

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

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

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

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

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.

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