Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?

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.

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.

Donald Trump and Mike Pence will restore the American dream for the next would-be visionary from small-town America.

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

You already gave me forever, Aislinn. I'm asking for a chance at right now.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.