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

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

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.

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

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.

Don't aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run — in the long run, I say — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.