Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

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.

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.

The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is