Living safely is dangerous.

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

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

If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect

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

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.