Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

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The New Zealand culture and nature is such that we find it very difficult to celebrate creative achievement. In order to get New Zealanders' respect you have to dominate the world like Peter Jackson has done. He is absolutely revered. - Niki Caro

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde

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Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others – a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill. — Thomas Kinkade

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There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

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Peter Jackson has the sort of imagination that no one else has. - Lee Pace

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Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.Fromm

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing. ― Oscar Wilde

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When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both.

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For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

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