“The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.”

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Live to the point of tears.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I’m a long way from the human being I’d liked to be, but I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all.

I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.

I’ve been watching Messi for some time now, and his ability to decide games and keep possession of the ball is amazing.