So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.