I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

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.

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

Love everybody and tell the truth.

It's not time that is passing by after all, it's you and I

Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.

For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.

Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.

Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.