In reply to the question, 'What is the best that people can possess, what brings them truest happiness, what is the sweetest of the sweet, and what is the pleasantest life to live?' the Buddha answered: 'Trust is the best that people can possess; following the way brings happiness; truth is the sweetest of the sweet; and the practice of insight is the pleasantest way to live.'

- Sutta Nipata

Quivering, wavering, hard to guard, to hold in check: the mind. The sage makes it straight-- like a fletcher, the shaft of an arrow.

- Dhammapada, 3, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

For one who is in the habit of constantly honoring and respecting the elders, four blessings increaseage, beauty, bliss, and strength.

- Dhammapada 109

If you would be freed of greed, first you have to leave egotism behind. The best mental exercise for relinquishing egotism is contemplating impermanence.

- Dogen

Crookedness and truth (straightness) are in their nature opposite and cannot dwell together more than frost and fire; for one who has become religious, and practices the way of straight behavior, a false and crooked way of speech is not becoming.

- Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King

This is what I say: Your mind is spiritual and so too is the sense-perceived world. The spirit is timeless and it dominates all existence as the great law guiding all beings in their search for truth. It changes crude nature into mind, and there is no being that can't be transformed into a vessel of truth.

- Brahmajala Sutra