I have said a lot of things in my time, some more memorable than others. Here is a collection of a few sayings that enlightened even me!

"Though one were to tend the sacrificial fire for a hundred years in the forest, if another were to pay homage to a single inwardly perfected man for just a moment, that homage is better than the hundred years of sacrifice."

"Four principal things increase in the man who is respectful and always honours his elders - length of life, good looks, happiness and health."

"Though one were to live a hundred years immoral and with a mind unstilled by meditation, the life of a single day is better if one is moral and practises meditation."

"Be urgent in good; hold your thoughts off evil. When one is slack in doing good the mind delights in evil."

"If a man has done evil, let him not keep on doing it. Let him not create an inclination to it. The accumulation of evil means suffering."

"All fear violence, all are afraid of death. Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used."

"If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you."

"What is this laughter, what is this delight, forever burning (with desires) as you are? Enveloped in darkness as you are, will you not look for a lamp?"