Having been is the surest kind of being.

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.

Would you like a cough drop Dolores?

Only your calling can give you fulfillment

For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.

I can't stand making records.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

A spark in the sun, this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth.

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

I have my way of doing things.