Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

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.

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

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.