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

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

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)

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

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.

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