Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me - and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.