The Fact That Human Conscience

Hope Is Both The Earliest And The Most Indispensable Virtue Inherent In The State Of Being Alive. Others Have Called This Deepest Quality Confidence, And I Have Referred To Trust As The Earliest Positive Psychosocial Attitude, But If Life Is To Be Sustained Hope Must Remain, Even Where Confidence Is Wounded, Trust Impaired.

The American Feels Too Rich In His Opportunities For Free Expression That He Often No Longer Knows What He Is Free From. Neither Does He Know Where He Is Not Free; He Does Not Recognize His Native Autocrats When He Sees Them.

If One Sees The Personality Not As An Apparatus That Is Essentially Constructed By The Time Childhood Is Over, But As Always In Its Essence Developing, Then Life At 25 Or 30 Or At The Gateway To Middle Age Will Stimulate Its Own Intrigue, Surprise, And Exhilaration Of Discovery.

Life Doesn't Make Any Sense Without Interdependence. We Need Each Other, And The Sooner We Learn That, The Better For Us All.

Someday, Maybe, There Will Exist A Well-informed, Well Considered And Yet Fervent Public Conviction That The Most Deadly Of All Possible Sins Is The Mutilation Of A Child’s Spirit; For Such Mutilation Undercuts The Life Principle Of Trust, Without Which Every Human Act, May It Feel Ever So Good And Seem Ever So Right Is Prone To Perversion By Destructive Forms Of Conscientiousness.