The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism

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 natural distribution is neither just nor unjust

Impossible, '" Matthew said."'Impossible n'est pas français, ' Ysabeau said, her tone tart as vinegar. 'And it certainly was not a word in your father's vocabulary.

I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so snobby about it.

We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

We may not all live holy lives, but we live in a world alive with holy moments.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.