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

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

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

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

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

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. 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.

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

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

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.

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

Let us acknowledge the magnitude of Motherhood, by simply honoring all mothers— past & present.

Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.

World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.

You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.