These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts. A man's life is the direct result of his thoughts... We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.