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

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.

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

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.

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.

You can’t trap justice. It’s an idea, a belief.

Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?

Casillas saying he wouldn't sign Messi for Madrid? Messi has a place in every team in the world.

I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.

...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

I'm forever gonna miss the start to the finish, the rush of racing downhill.