I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

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.

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer... his unique opportunity lies in the way he bears his burden.

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.