I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.

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.

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

When we pray for guidance in a group, we create a positive force field and align our personal energies towards a single direction.

To have courage for whatever comes in life-everything lies in that.

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

I'm quite introverted but I'm not shy.

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.