Doubt Is The Brother Of

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 Established Identities Become Outworn Or Unfinished Ones Threaten To Remain Incomplete, Special Crises Compel Men To Wage Holy Wars, By The Cruelest Means, Against Those Who Seem To Question Or Threaten Their Unsafe Ideological Bases.

You See A Child Play, And It Is So Close To Seeing An Artist Paint, For In Play A Child Says Things Without Uttering A Word. You Can See How He Solves His Problems. You Can Also See What's Wrong. Young Children, Especially, Have Enormous Creativity, And Whatever's In Them Rises To The Surface In Free Play.

Children Cannot Be Fooled By Empty Praise And Condescending Encouragement. They May Have To Accept Artificial Bolstering Of Their Self-esteem In Lieu Of Something Better, But What I Call Their Accruing Ego Identity Gains Real Strength Only From Wholehearted And Consistent Recognition Of Real Accomplishment, That Is, Achievement That Has Meaning In Their Culture.

The More You Know Yourself, The More Patience You Have For What You See In Others.