One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.

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

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

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

The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.