The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

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.

…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…

The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people.

Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him.

Even with a round table, some people always seem able to sit at the head of it.

Love is all around you like the air, and is the very breath of your being.

If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

If I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.