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

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

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.