If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

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

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.

Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.