Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

Now, I tell you, these... things are not to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes. If they were to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes, who here would lack them? It's not fitting for the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life to pray for it or to delight in doing so. Instead, the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life should follow the path of practice leading to long life. In so doing, he will attain long life.

Who leaves behind all human bonds, And has cast off the bonds of heaven, Detached from all bonds everywhere: He is the one I call a brahmin.