Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

[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.

What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.

Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.

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