Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

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.

There are more temptations in business than in any other sphere of the society

... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out.

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.

If you don't respect yourself, don't expect others to respect you.

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.

The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.

Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.