What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.