What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

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.

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?""What's the point of having a heart if you don't use it to spare others from the harsh judgements of your mind?

Since emotions are merely information, there are no good or bad, right or wrong emotions.

Every man must get to heaven his own way.

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

I'm not an architectural composer.

We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

I'm single because I move about so much that I can't really get attached.

From the stars we come, to the stars we go. Life is but a journey into the unknown.