Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear and cease to be.

If a string has one end, it has another.

Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.