Reflecting on his experiences in Auschwitz, Victor Frankl remembers that
the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread … 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.
Victor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy