Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.

The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies