Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

It is in this way that I went forth to teach.

Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odor be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.