I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Mind over mattress.

I owe my solitude to other people.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

‚Do you spell it with a ‚V‘ or a ‚W‘?‘ inquired the judge. ‚That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord‘.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

I don’t write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

I became a beach bum.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

I like to let things breathe.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.