"Just as a bee, without harming the flower, its color or its fragrance, takes a little nectar and flies away, so too should the sage wander in a village."

"If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another."

"All conditioned things have the nature of vanishing."

"The pleasant and the unpleasant, the agreeable and the disagreeable, are not in things themselves, but in us."

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?"