College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- Topic: Alone, Friendship
- Location: Helena, Montana
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.
So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be 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.
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
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.
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.
Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
