Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

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

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

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!

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.

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally

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