For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.

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.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been.

Science is what it is—not what we think.

You will find God in the church of your choice.

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote.

I always thought I was more satanic than Manson.

I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.