Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

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.

It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! And yet perfection is undoubtedly an irritating thing!

A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

You are loved by the One who knows you best. God's love will never disappoint you and never give up on you.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.