"The one thing you cannot take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me."
“You died a thousand deaths and now your second life begins. You must prove yourself worthy of this gift, accept it with gratitude, and perform its duties”
"In the end, what a person really wants is not to be happy, but rather a reason to be happy."
"The spiritual person can be disturbed but not destroyed."
"Again and again, it is the defiant power of the human spirit that we can summon against our apparently powerful body and mind."
“Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answers to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”
“To the wrong questions we get the wrong answers. The correct question is: despite the economic depression what am I still able to do?”
“What keeps people healthy?" In his 1930's study of psychiatric patients against a control group of 1,000 non-depressed mentally healthy people (in the clinical sense), he concludes that what determines mental health is a person's self shaping, present attitude towards the past and validation of possiblities in the future.