A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.