Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

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.

There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly? The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse. Rose Tyler: So?

I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.