I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.