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.

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

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.

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.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

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

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.