Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).

Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.

If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take as your guide.