Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

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.

Feeling undeserving is never compatible with the ability to attract or create wealth.

Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

The Gospel is not an alternative, it’s an ultimatum.

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.