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

I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

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