At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

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.

Only those with tenacity can march forward in March

One of my pa...friends... isn't doing very well.""...Is your friend dying?""...Yes honey, he is.""That's sad.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

.. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.

Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.

Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.

There are no true friends in politics.

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.