Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. – Robert Ingersoll, Individuality

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. – William H. Mauldin

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. – Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy