Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength

We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.

I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but fit for me.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

To have ones individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life Like being blown out as one blows out a light

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving catting of the majority.

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.