One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

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

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

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.

Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .