No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. – Jack Kerouac
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. – Jack Kerouac
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. – Jack Kerouac
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer