You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

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.

The emotional brain existed long before the rational brain.

I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I dont wanna know. I don't wanna know.

... it is because we have acquired technical knowledge without understanding the total process of life that technology has become a means of destroying ourselves

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.