We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

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

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.