I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

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.

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.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to KNOW it.

Hey, I wasn’t a weirdo. I was in the audio-visual club.

You see, Firestar? I am even more powerful than Starclan, for I have changed the clans in the forest from four to two..."-The Darkest Hour, Page 227

Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.

Frankly, I don't see markets; I see risks, rewards, and money.

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.