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.

Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame.

Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.

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

When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.