I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Freedom is relative.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

When I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, ‚This kid is different.‘

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

I’m very free-spirited.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

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

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘