"Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived - not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering. What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger."

"For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."

"Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: 'He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How."

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

"Don't aim at success-the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself."

"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."

"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."

"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."

"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."

"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."

"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

"The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it."

"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."

"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."

"What is to give light must endure burning."

"A human being is a deciding being."

"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."

"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."