If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have got anywhere.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.
Religion is like a pair of shoes. Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".
I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What’s a sundial in the shade?
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.
Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.