The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.

More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.