No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through

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?

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.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

Own your truth.

I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.

What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!

Strike the ignorants with the hammer of knowledge, wherever and whenever you see them!

Never take candy from strangers.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

Care for yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself.