The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.

We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

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.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.