I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

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.

Her beauty was ethereal, knocking on the door of the part of his psyche that still believed in magic and miracles.

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.

When there's change, there's opportunity.

They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?

As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.