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

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake."

To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.

That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.