If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

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.

He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing more than a shell of a person.

You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.

It's so hard not to smile.

I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

I don’t use a computer. We have too much information and it’s really impossible to filter it.

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.