I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.

If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

. . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I still would have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of that image, and that my mental conversation with her would have been just as vivid and just as satisfying. "Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death."

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

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

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.