Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.