[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

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.

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH(Name of chapter)

When we leverage, we aggregate and organize existing resources to achieve success.

We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.

A good man fights for himself. A great man fights for everyone else

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

To pastors and leaders who serve faithfully, who work to teach and shepherd those who are in your church or religious institution: thank you for all you do.