Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.

Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.

Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.