Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

There are always exceptions,' replied Flea. 'They are what make you exceptional.

It's perfectly normal that extraordinary things happen to me. I'm an exceptional person. Oh, don't think I'm boasting. I mean to say that, unfortunately, I'm exceptional and that, unfortunately, I can't live by the rules. I must make my own.

I will not live by rules like those.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

But remember that you hear about people making big changes because this is the exception, not the rule.

. . .it is not my design to teach the method that everyone must follow in order to use his reason properly, but only to show the way in which I have tried to use my own.

He had many names, but one nature, and this unique nature made him subject to certain laws not binding upon ordinary persons. In a compensatory fashion, he was also free from certain other laws more commonly in force.

There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.

good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws

One of the keys to being extraordinary is knowing what rules to follow and what rules to break. Outside the rules of physics and the rules of law, all other rules are open to questioning.

How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.

Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.