I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

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.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Joy brings smiles on our faces, it brings power, peace and sound mind.

Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.

This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.

The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.