Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.

Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

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

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.