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.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Success is total self-acceptance.

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.