If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.

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’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.

Capture your youth, while you can.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.

The choices you make today design your future

I think that's coming to an end. And, you know, when we ... we can't beg them [russians] to get along with us. And I think there was some of that going on, which has now ended.

When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.

I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.