A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.