I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.

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.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.