[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

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.

Living for the Self [the Soul] is merit karma (you bind merit karma) and living for the worldly life is nothing but demerit karma (you bind demerit karma).

Family's not family unless it's totally messing you up. I'm pretty sure that's the point

Be aware for there is a snare ready for a serpent

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.

What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

When you learn to listen to your gutt, your find all the answers.

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.