The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

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 true alchemists do not change lead into gold

In achieving your greatest potential in life, the more enemies you'll make but just “Take care and play the game smart.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.

A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.