Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) — "The tongue is a sharp knife... It kills without drawing blood."

"What is the world? It is a fleeting show, a transient dream. What is life? It is a momentary flash, a passing shadow."

"When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself."

"If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature."

"The body, monks, is not self. If the body were the self, this body would not lend itself to dis-ease. It would be possible (to say) with regard to the body, 'Let my body be thus. Let my body not be th…"

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."