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

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.