When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.

Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

Though all men be made of one metal, yet they be not cast all in one mold.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life He first individualizes.

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

Every one must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

Each of us must make our own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

As many men, so many minds; every one his own way.

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

There is no one alive who is Youer than You.