it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I've spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it's no accident that you and I fight all the time.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.