The threshold between right and wrong is pain.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, "Imagine All the People

As a single slab of rock Won't budge in the wind, So the wise are not moved By praise, By blame. Like a deep lake, Clear, unruffled, & calm; So the wise become clear, Calm, On hearing words of the Dhamma.

- Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of ones time in religious offerings to the gods.

- Dhammapada

Teaching nowadays can hardly be compared with the wise ones of old; there is the name without the reality. Who among latter-day students knows they are turning away from awakening and getting mixed up in objects?

- P'u-an