Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.

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

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

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

Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.