One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

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.

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.

I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

Don't let your want for perfection become procrastination

Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.