Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.