Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

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.

The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.

Who can be close to you without the Divine Light of his heart?

A little doubt is better than total credulity.

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

You don't take on anything unless there's fear.

If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.

It is your thoughts and your thoughts alone that determine what's possible for you now.

It is said that if our intention is to help others-even if we are unable to follow it through-we will never have any regret. Regret is a result of trying to make "me" happy.