There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.

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 matter with human beans, " the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

I always composed music as a little kid.

It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.

This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.