Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

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.

Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold.

But i do believe in souls being in sync, souls that mirror each other.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

But Ash, I can't continue to want you from a distance. To love you and not have you. I'd end up in jail if anyone tried to touch you and God forbid you tried to date someone.

I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.