People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

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.

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

Better foolish and honest than clever and false.

Courage is essential to leadership.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

The killing of innocent people is a sin.

Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.

I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.