The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

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.

If people buy your story, you'll never run dry.

Turn on the light within, expand your horizons and reach your full potential.

Self-confident people are proud of their accomplishments, but can remain humble without bragging.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

Getting your news from Twitter is like asking a cat for directions.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?