Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

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.

The only sharks I’m afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.

I bet that dog-walking trollop called the cops on us. - Esme from Sister Mischief

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

I have hope because I love you – I’ve been in love with you, Avery. Probably before I even realize that I was

I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour.