The past is the luxury of proprietors.

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.

Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know.

One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow