I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

A human being is a deciding being.

Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.