We are our choices.

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.

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.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

I also need to honor myself for working so hard, and that means treating the money I earn with respect.

Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.

Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons.]

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.