We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

It is always important to have something yet to do in life.

Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.