A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.

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.

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

He doesn't get ulcers - he gives them.

Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.