We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

Never follow the crowd.

Each man must have his "I"; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.

Follow your own star!

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Every man must get to Heaven his own way.

Be yourself, who else is better qualified?

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. --Pablo Picasso Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.