At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

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