As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

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

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.