Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.

Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

I have great faith in 'ordinary parents.' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my experience that when parents are given the skills to be more helpful, not only are they able to use these skills, but they infuse them with a warmth and a style that is uniquely their own.

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.