It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

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

View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.