Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

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.

The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious.

We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That's my punch list everyday.

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

I'm smart enough to realize that the world does not stop and change because I want it to.

Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

People have always told me, 'Yo, you're too unselfish. Shoot more.'

On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.