Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

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

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.