In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.

. . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I still would have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of that image, and that my mental conversation with her would have been just as vivid and just as satisfying. "Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death."