You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people their history their culture and their values.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid lively forcible firm steady conception of an object than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

The majority does not rule in America but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

It is clear that not in one thing alone but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

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.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

And I find - I'm 63 and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer you better like being alone.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room alone.

Comics for me is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then suddenly to be living alone as the President's widow?

You could say in a vulgar Freudian way that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.