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

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.

Living safely is dangerous.

If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!

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.

Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other. We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.