This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

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.

In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.

If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.

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

Attachment leads to suffering.

That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.