Nothing comes from nothing.

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.

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

Good writing is a mirror of the mind where readers can see themselves again and again.

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

Ragtime was my lullaby.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

I think being in the public eye can only help me launch into the world of fashion.

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

Some people would believe anything, especially if it eliminates awkward social and political problems.