Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

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.

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

Friends don't leave friends behind to wash dishes for yetis!

Conscious rebukes from doing wrong

I do benefits for all religions. ... I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

A charge to keep I have A God to glorify: A never-dying soul to save And fit it for the sky.

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.

She knew more about these situations than she realized, he thought. She'd spent years at Duncan's side. "When in doubt," he added, "be pompous.

We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters

It's why I left TV. I couldn't handle everybody telling me what I should have done after they watched me on TV. I said, "You're not even watching what I think I'm doing, so I'm out."