"Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”

“Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.”

“In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.”

“It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.”

“"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!”

“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”

“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”

“Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.”

“I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.”