Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.

He who is grateful doesn't suffer.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.

As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.

Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.