Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

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.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.

I do think how two people dance with each other is indicative of how they feel about each other. It can tell a lot more than a verbal scene.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?