There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

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.

Seek peace.

You ought to be curious and daring.

The truth is, you don't need the Lord to do anything for you. He's already done His part. You've already got it, whatever "it" is.

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.