Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

Don't just do something, be there.

Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.