There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. – Samuel Johnson
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. – Irene C. Kassorla
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. – Andre Gide
There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. – Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), More Pages from a Journal, 1910
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. – Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. – Charles R. Brown
