Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I am a rank individualist.

I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be an uncommon man—if I can. I seek opportunity, not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I chose my own path because that was the only way.

You just gotta live your life and do it your way.

I don't want to depend on anyone.

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

I'm not anybody's puppet.

Freedom is control in your own life.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

I don't live on other people's terms.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

I try to be as independent as possible.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.