Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

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.

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

No matter how big the risk will be, you're willing to do anything, to get what you want or save yourself.

I would rather die standing than live kneeling

I've been grateful for what comes along.

I want to keep an English heart to the team. I believe in that. Michael Owen is that. Never think Michael is afraid of anything.

Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an endlessly interesting way to have the experience of writing memoir.

When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.

To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.