Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

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.

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.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

When you are having a difficult time, don’t lose your cool. Don’t hurry--be silent, listen, and think to find the way.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.

I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.

Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

All men are created equal.