“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”

“Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”

“What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.”