Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.

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.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.

Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride.

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.

There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as the enormous importance attached to immediate victory.

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.

We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.

By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.