“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Life is a useless passion.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

Nothingness haunts Being.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.

Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.

The right decisions come from the right focus. You’ll succeed if your focus is on the mission, not the money.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

In life we have decisions to make, paths to take and opportunities to take advantage of.