For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

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.

Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives.

I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour".

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity.

ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.

I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me.