Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

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.

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

He'd fantasized about her too? "You don't have to fantasize anymore, " she murmured...

There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.

For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice.

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.