You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end.

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.