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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

No human creature can give orders to love.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.