But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.

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.

Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.