Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.