I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

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

[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.

If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.