Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

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