One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

Success is total self-acceptance.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.