It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other. We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.

Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

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