Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

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.

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.