I've never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

The problem is normal wasn't in my DNA. I was destined to be forever freakish.

Are you strange like me, are you insane? Are you the wildfire, that loves pouring rain...

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

A man is known by the books he reads.

What really annoys me very often is when people start comparing two individuals. This clearly indicates that they have not lived their life at all. They are insulting themselves by resorting to these...

My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.

Why should we change that which makes us unique?

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you - either by the Establishment,...

If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own...

Nothing distracts one from one's true purpose in life more than following the crowd mentality.

Many men wait all their lives for the opportunity to be good in their own way.

Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group - think, we begin to make more effective choices.

Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

If you start to do things that nobody does, you will get things that nobody gets.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

She had just enough madness to make her interesting

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

{...} what I wish for Chizalum is the following: that she is full of opinions, and that her opinions stem from a well-informed, humane, and open mind. That she have health and happiness. That she have...

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Loafe with me on the grass - loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want - not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.

Care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

This is what they have in place of freedom-time and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite...

Children are not coloring books. We cannot fill them with our favorite colors.

He had not liked the things taught to him in college. He had been taught a great deal about social responsibility, about a life of service and self-sacrifice. Everybody had said it was beautiful and...

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.