The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

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 has taken me quite a few years to realize the fact that most of the thoughts in my head are not necessary.

Fall in love with your uniqueness because that's what makes your presence on earth a very special one.

No doctor knows everything. There's a reason why it's called "practising" medicine.

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

Strategic spiritual warfare is war in the spirit with your spiritual man to address the physical problem

. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.