Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

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

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.

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

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.

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

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Man is a universe in little.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Impossible is just an opinion.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

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

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

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

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

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 you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

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

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

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.