“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

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

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you into something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“Historically, the most terrible things; war, genocide, and slavery, have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”