Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

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.

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.

When played together, love is music in life

Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.

My change may inspire other people.

How much service have I rendered to my people?

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!

Most people in Hollywood are making about 10 percent of all the things they're considering; I am making 95 percent.

There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.