No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

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

As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

A human being is a deciding being.

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.