Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

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

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how