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

[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

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