His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.

Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.