An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

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

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.

The Tathagatha... is the originator of the path unarisen before, the producer of the path unproduced before, the declarer of the path undeclared before. He is the knower of the path, the discoverer of the path, the one skilled in the path. And his disciplines now dwell following that path and become possessed of it afterwards.

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.