Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

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.

Life itself is the most precious gift to me, for that I am perpetually indebted.

The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can.

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus... That is really an important job.

A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

You have to defend your character. That's your job, if they're hiring you. That doesn't mean you can't collaborate, but you do have to make some big, bold choices. We do that in real life, too.

I hope we don't see no paparazzi today. Because I'm still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, 'That's not my statement!'

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.