Man’s Main Concern Is Not To Gain

An Abnormal Reaction To An Abnormal Situation Is Normal Behavior.

In A Last Violent Protest Against The Hopelessness Of Imminent Death, I Sensed My Spirit Piercing Through The Enveloping Gloom. I Felt It Transcend That Hopeless, Meaningless World, And From Somewhere I Heard A Victorious "yes" In Answer To My Question Of The Existence Of An Ultimate Purpose. At That Moment A Light Was Lit In A Distant Farmhouse, Which Stood On The Horizon As If Painted There, In The Midst Of The Miserable Gray Of A Dawning Morning In Bavaria. "et Lux In Tenebris Lucet"-and The Light Shineth In The Darkness.

Humor Was Another Of The Soul's Weapons In The Fight For Self-preservation.

Pain From Problems And Disappointments, Etc., Is Inevitable In Life, But Suffering Is A Choice Determined By Whether You Choose To Compare Your Experience And Pain To Something Better And Therefore Feel Unlucky And Bitter Or To Something Worse And Therefore Feel Lucky And Grateful!

We Who Lived In Concentration Camps Can Remember The Men Who Walked Through The Huts Comforting Others, Giving Away Their Last Piece Of Bread. They May Have Been Few In Number, But They Offer Sufficient Proof That 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.