What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

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 loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.

Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.

I hate it when you really think you're getting something good... and you don't listen to your dudes when you really should.

I'm deeply concerned. And I think, in many ways, the Trump presidency poses a clear and present danger to our country and to the world.

Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.

I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

The more people you know from different backgrounds, the more tolerant you feel of different ways of living, and the closer you feel to the issues that those people have.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.'