I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.

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.

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad--or have I?

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.