The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.