People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

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.

Feed two birds with one crumb.

Guys who know how to use a blowdryer... Their hair is too long!

In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.

I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.

Stupid is not illegal.

The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.

The deal looks bad and smells worse.

Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.