Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.