I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

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.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello."

Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

Leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.

Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care