"Conquer the angry one by love. Conquer the evil one by good. Conquer the stingy one by generosity. Conquer the liar by truth."

"The body, monks, is not self. If the body were the self, this body would not lend itself to dis-ease."

"I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed."

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

"Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness."