Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred books, or because it has been believed by many, or because it has been handed down by your ancestors. Accept and live only according to what will enable you to see truth face to face.

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

Be a lamp unto yourself.

Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it.

Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.