"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.

"And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision...which determined whether or not you would become a plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity.... 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. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp."

--Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning