When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.

. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

How we need another soul to cling to.

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.