Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.

... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.