“Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.”

Success is total self-acceptance.

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.

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

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

What is to give light must endure burning.

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

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

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

Real freedom must include economic security.

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

If you actually do something you love it’s a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose.

I believe in free love and that’s just how I feel.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

I want a life free of shame and unforgiveness. I want a life that is not dictated by my performance but by my identity.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.