When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears - venerating such as these, whose passions are extinguished and for whom there is no further source for fear, no one can calculate how great his merit is.

If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.