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

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

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

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!

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

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.