To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

War ends only when people love each other.

Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.

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.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.