If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world.

I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.