In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

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.

What we touch with our fingers is false. What we feel through our perceptions is real. What we see through our eyes is an illusion, but what we see through our heart is real.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

Eating and exercising should be conscious decisions.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.

Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.