it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

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.

To make it a habit, do it again and again until it becomes a ritual.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

I was always into animation, especially.

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

And the joy of my job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing.

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were.

The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.