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.

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.

What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.