The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again

Nothing is forever except change.

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

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.