Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

We are our choices.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

less small talk and more real talk.

I wake up and look at that bridge, try to count the red taillights I see heading east every morning, a kind of rosary as I pray for another crisis to dwarf the one defining us right now.

He gave a nod. "My future lies in your hands." "Not your future, Gerard, but the path leading to it, " she suggested.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

Enjoy how sweet, how thoughtful, how kind I'm being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it's back to the same old crap.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

They [U.S. soldiers] are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.