If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

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.

You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

Innovation, having fun and giving back, should be the core values for everyone

Enough experience will make you wise.

Eyes like streams of melting snow,” she said, and it was all I could do not to roll my melting snow eyes.

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

Sometimes we can't help the way we feel, but we can mostly choose how we respond to it.

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.