He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

...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.

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.

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

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

A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves