Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.

If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don't say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.

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.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.