Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

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.

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

Huysmans takes the old trope of moon-as-woman and replaces its romantic connotations with decadent ones: the moon here is woman as clamorous lunatic, as convulsive epileptic.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

In the water I am beautiful.

Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong.

End results that work that don’t involve government threaten liberals.

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.