Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

Hate never ends hate. Only love can.

In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what is sensed, there should be just the sensed; In what is thought, there should be just the thought. He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.

Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

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