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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it's our garden that is really nurturing us.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

The world is going on because not all can be free of desires. People with desires are born again and again.

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