With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.