As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

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

Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.

But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.

Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.