I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I'm a happy man because I am successful in what I do of course but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This for me is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick and some of that stuff was made on wire not even tape let alone digital.

The best thing I've learned is if you're going out never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust they can say be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it the more we contemplate him.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be and he who studies men will know how they are.

Throughout my whole life as a performer I've never played with a band. I've always played alone so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Nothing we do however virtuous can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.

The law was made for one thing alone for the exploitation of those who don't understand it or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

I need to do things on my own need to be left alone.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination and that's all you have.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

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.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone accept everything alone.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem the most important problem is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front there with the screen so big a little kid all alone and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.