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

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.