Hell is other people at breakfast.

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.

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

I eat as healthy as I can. It is tough.

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

I don't tan on my upper thighs, so when I first wore those [ cut-off jean short shorts] I look like I was walking on two cans of milk.

Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.