Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.

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

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.