Live in joy and love even among those who hate; live in joy and peace even among the troubled.

If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

All fear violence, all are afraid of death.

Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.