Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don't say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.

The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.

Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.