Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

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.

It’s never too late to start all over again.

It runs in the blood like wooden legs.

Science is simply common sense at its best - that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.

You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .

Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.