"Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way, if the root of craving is not wholly uprooted, suffering springs up again and again."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a long road to life."

"Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes."

"He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill — him I call a holy man."