Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. – Michel de Montaigne

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. – Eckhart