Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

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.

See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.

Stories are a different kind of true.

Not fighting, avoiding talking to fans... that's when the thoughts creep in about retiring and moving on to something else.

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

One person can and does make a difference.

You have to keep evolving.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.

Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.