Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

It is always important to have something yet to do in life.

For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.