If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.