"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."
"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."
"I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for."
"Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired."
"We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer."
"A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else."