You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

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.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

Cynicism is the humour of hatred

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.