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

The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

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.