“A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself; it is a child of solitude." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary." Marilyn vos Savant 

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties" - Harry Truman

"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing" - Paul Simon

"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair" - William Cowper

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves" - Henry David Thoreau

"Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated" - Confusius

"I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me" - Jay London