I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

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.

Instead of being frustrated by adversity, our mind focuses on the adventure of creativity with our thoughts. What a glorious paradise?

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough

A strange feeling of lonelinessAdrift near the blue canvasYou may stare long and listen deepYet not know whether sea-shore or sea-snore!

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

We may be unable to maintain even a semblance of order in our urban schools, which increasingly resemble happy hour in Beirut. But, hallelujah, we sure know how to protect kids from God.

All I can tell you is that I know the enemy, allies, and troops hear what I say.

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

Quite like old times,' the room says.

The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.