As the only girl growing up among three brothers I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played a sport to be learned a competition to join I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.

The best rules to form a young man are to talk little to hear much to reflect alone upon what has passed in company to distrust one's own opinions and value others that deserve it.

No enterprise small or large public or private can remain self-governing let alone successful so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

You can work on the saxophone alone but ultimately you must perform with others.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others they have a hundred when alone.

Others indeed may talk and write and fight about liberty and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

Friends are very important to me and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person and I hate to be alone.

I love clothes but I don't know what to put on myself let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed.

When they are alone they want to be with others and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all human beings are like that.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech or possesses speech or mind above others when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include as necessary to one's own happiness the happiness of others.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need it performs some great service not for itself but for others or failing therein it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

This then is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Communication is a continual balancing act juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world we have to act in concert with others but to survive as ourselves rather than simply as cogs in a wheel we have to act alone.

There are two types of poor people those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor the others are rich people out of luck.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

What is uttered from the heart alone Will win the hearts of others to your own.

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

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.