Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

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.

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.