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

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

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.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

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

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

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