To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

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.

I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.

Men don't pay attention to small things.

New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani fired his wife, Donna Hanover, as official hostess of the mayor's mansion last weekend. He's got his own idea of what a hostess should be. He wants a little cupcake.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.

I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

Do not ask yourself if your love is big enough, because love is neither big nor small, it is simply love.

An excess of science will leave none of us alive.

Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.