When people are free to do as they choose, they usually imitate each other.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people.

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important.'

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.