View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

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

Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

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.

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal