The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and featur

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

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

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.