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

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret.

What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

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