Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

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.

Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.

To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house. When we get there, we dream of something else.

Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.