Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

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

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

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.

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.