To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Source: From Alan Feugi's collection of quotations
-- e e cummings, (Oct 14 1894-1962), US poet, novelist; He is well known for his eccentric language and typography; wrote Tulips are Chimneys, 1923 and the autobiographical The Enormous Room, 1922.