That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

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.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

Wasted strokes, like missed deadlines, are preventable and costly.

Each moment in time we have it all even when we think we don't.

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

You know what's fun? You pick somebody at random, like out of the phone book, and send them about 100 'Just Because' cards. They can't even ask you why you did it.

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don't make sense to anybody else. You know who You are. You are the shining star.