Success Is Total Self-acceptance.

Decisions, Not Conditions, Determine What A Man Is.

Even Though Conditions Such As Lack Of Sleep, Insufficient Food And Various Mental Stresses May Suggest That The Inmates Were Bound To React In Certain Ways, In The Final Analysis It Becomes Clear That The Sort Of Person The Prisoner Became Was The Result Of An Inner Decision, And Not The Result Of Camp Influences Alone.

I Try To Do Everything As Soon As Possible, And Not At The Last Moment. This Ensures That, When I Am Overburdened With Work, I Will Not Face The Added Pressure Of Knowing That Something Is Still To Be Done.

A Human Being Is Not One Thing Among Others; Things Determine Each Other, But Man Is Ultimately Self-determining. What He Becomes - Within The Limits Of Endowment And Environment- He Has Made Out Of Himself. In The Concentration Camps, For Example, In This Living Laboratory And On This Testing Ground, We Watched And Witnessed Some Of Our Comrades Behave Like Swine While Others Behaved Like Saints. Man Has Both Potentialities Within Himself; Which One Is Actualized Depends On Decisions But Not On Conditions.

What Is Demanded Of Man Is Not, As Some Existential Philosophers Teach, To Endure The Meaninglessness Of Life, But Rather To Bear His Incapacity To Grasp Its Unconditional Meaningfulness In Rational Terms.