Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.