You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

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.

S.M."Social Media or Social Menace?I'll leave it to you to work out.

When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.

I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.

As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself

I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful...but it is!

A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

England? England is in London right?

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.