Fear is the mother of all gods.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise

One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.

Just do you. The right people and opportunities will be drawn to that.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.

We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

I still probably smoke as much as I ever did!