What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

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.

Be aware of the power of self awareness.

Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.

Prayer's value is not that it makes challenges go away, but that it changes my perception and experience within them.~ Life at First Sight: Finding the Divine in the Details

It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

I dont want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

In the world take always the position of the giver.