Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

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.

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."

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.