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" We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone. "

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" We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy. "

" I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this incredible gift I've been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know? "

Leonardo DiCaprio

" He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. "

" It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one. "

" When everything is lonely I can be my best friend. "

" Solitude is un-American. "

" Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn't matter whose body is whose. "

" I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else. "

" Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. "

Calvin Coolidge

" From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying. "

" There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone. "

" It took living alone for me to really get to know myself. "

" It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power. "

" I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain. "

" When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. "

" We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. "

" I don't eat with beautiful women alone. "

" You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself. "

" Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. "

William Alexander

" When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last. "

" The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone. "

" The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is. "

" 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. "

" Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone. "

Donella Meadows

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

" I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible. "

" It does not require many words to speak the truth. "

" 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. "

Paramahansa Yogananda

" If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. "

Thurgood Marshall