For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

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.