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.

We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.

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

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

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

For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued