He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.

Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.