A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.

When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

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

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.