Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

Be a light unto yourself.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.