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.

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

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

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.

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.