One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

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.

John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.

Last time you bring me pie, I cut into it, with my tiny pie cutter, and millions of birds flew out hitting me in the eyes and the temples... it was a trick pie!

I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.

As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.