Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision ... we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

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.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves

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.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.