I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.

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.

Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.

It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system.

If you can't use dividends, it's not a bad thing to give it back to your shareholders. They'll use it somewhere else.

People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.