Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.