Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Fashion hides, or diverts attention away from, our uniqueness.

In some cases, it is not the person that has changed, but their decision not to be themselves.

The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you.

Not being yourself is the worst form of self-disrespect.

Being a good person is not nearly as honourable as being yourself.