It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.

If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

A jug fills drop by drop.