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• 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
  
  

• Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human. ~Antonio Machado
  
  

• 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
  
  

• One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882
  
  

• The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. ~Charles R. Brown
  
  

• The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. ~Eckhart
  
  

• Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. ~Walter Kaufmann