For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

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.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.