All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

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 perfect person isn't what you're being asked to be, but a beautiful soul will suffice. " ~ Roy Hale

Treat your employees like you would want to be treated if you were an employee.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Young people will always need mentors to guide and support them.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man but it would deteriorate the cat.

I enjoy working with images of maps, flags, and different cultures around the world. I've always liked geography and geopolitics and it's fun to be able to play with the world political order.

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.