I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.