All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears - venerating such as these, whose passions are extinguished and for whom there is no further source for fear, no one can calculate how great his merit is.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.