Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

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.

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

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.

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

Some humans are so consumed with trying to control the outcomes of their own lives that they don’t have any idea the part they play in the outcome of someone else’s.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.

You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

I have to believe I got some kind of say over our lives.

Home is pretty utopian.

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.