Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.

When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas!

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

To have everything is to possess nothing.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.