Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

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.

Don't hide your emptiness. Fill it with love and give it away to fill your life with joy.

Words can lie. See beyond them.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

If I'd been asked to play an Asian man [in Doctor Strange] I would've shown them Benedict Wong.