What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately. The Winter of Our Discontent
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. Man's Search For Meaning
"Respect yourself and others will respect you." The Analects of Confucius
“He was prepared to joke with them, to tell them stories from his journeyman years, and in turn to listen to their stories, anything just so as to keep them awake, to be able to show them again and again that he had nothing edible in the cage, and that he starved in a way that not one of them could.” A Hunger Artist
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