Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) — "Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun, and the Truth."

"One who drinks deeply of the Dharma with a clear and open mind, rests well."

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

"The tongue is a sharp knife... It kills without drawing blood."

"Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way, if the root of craving is not wholly uprooted, suffering springs up again and again."

"The body, monks, is not self. If the body were the self, this body would not lend itself to dis-ease."