“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”