Do Not Mistake A Child For His

Personality, Too, Is Destiny.

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.

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.

Adolescents Need Freedom To Choose, But Not So Much Freedom That They Cannot, In Fact, Make A Choice.