Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

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

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

A human being is a deciding being.