The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.

Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.

Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.

He who is kind to animals heaven will protect.