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.

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.

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.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

The heavenly Father is a hope to the hopeless.

Two kinds ofpeople will love you:those who confessit, and those whoshow you, likecards on a table, because love isa gamble

It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.

Consider that fact that, being nothing in ourselves, we cannot, without divine assistance, accomplish the smallest good or advance the smallest step toward Heaven.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

People will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing.

A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

After moving to New York, I started to love vintage shopping.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.