From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

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.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

What is it you want to do, to put out into the world, that is greater than your fear?

Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.

What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?

Punishment creates crime.

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

Ah swear, ah will croak if she asks me for a pair of Nikes instead of Christian Louboutins!

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.