“Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How how?can I make it always so?”

“Standing on the edge with my patients abiding with them means that I must harbor a true awareness that I, too, could lose my child through the play of circumstance over which I have no control. I...”

“Standing on the edge with my patients — abiding with them — means that I must harbor a true awareness that I, too, could lose my child through the play of circumstance over which I have no control....”

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they ...”

“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiti...”

“It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer float, for instanc...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left and right. You have to protest constantly just t...”

“Leave him with his God. Im sure Hes as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I dont want to know about Cains God. If he is anything to be guided by, Id rather be an atheist, thank you.”

“What do you think of Cains affirmations?He never told a lie. If he says that God talks to him, he is convinced that God is talking to him.Do you believe he is a saint?God only knows, and never bett...”