Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.

There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear.