Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?

Be stronger than your excuses.

Joyful gratitude creates a happy life.

I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.

I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.