A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

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.

She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had.

Ah, there, " said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles.""That comes--as you call it--of being arrant asses, " retorted the doctor.

Keisha said... I'm going to ride you so hard you might regret seeking shelter here.Gabe replied... IF you don't, I'm gonna need to go back out and throw myself into a snowbank just to cool off

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

If you don’t do something differently, you’ll ultimately be where you are now, only later.