Buddhists do not believe in a life of hedonism because they believe in the law of karma (that is, a person's actions in this life will affect his existence in his next life)

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Watch the mind as it tries, in every moment, to co-opt experience by translating it into a story. It tries to draw you away from experience into a mental world that simulates experience. If it succeeds, that story becomes your experience.

Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine.

We transcend suffering, not because our problems are solved, but because we experience a level of consciousness in which nothing is missing, a way of being that doesn't depend on the conditions of our mind, body, and life situation.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Do not believe in anything
simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything
simply because it is spoken
and rumoured by many.
Do not believe in anything
simply because it is found written
in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything
merely on the authority
of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions
because they have been handed down
for many generations.
But after observation and analysis,
when you find that anything agrees with reason
and is conducive to the good
and benefit of one and all,
then accept it and live up to it.