We are our choices.

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

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.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly or quickly. In other words, you do not know how long you will have to spend deliberating over a sentence. ... But if I listen to a tape recorder, the listening time is determined by the speed at which the tape turns and not by my own needs.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.