Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

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

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.