Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

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.

Love is a battle with yourself. Be kind and love yourself before you love anyone else.

I’m famous, but I’m not famous like freaking Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.