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.

It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.