Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.

Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a 'falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.