I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
-Winston S. Churchill
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
-Audrey Hepburn