This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.