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

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.