This web page gives a few sayings that I find particularly nice. The sayings are not ordered in any meaningful way.
`` It is as if a man had been wounded by an arrow thickly smeared with poison, and his friends and kinsmen were to get a surgeon to heal him, and he were to say, I will not have this arrow pulled out until I know by what man I was wounded, whether he is of the warrior caste, or a brahmin, or of the agricultural or the lowest caste. Or if he were to say, I will not have this arrow pulled out until I know of what name of family the man is; . or whether he is tall, or short, or of middle height; or whether he is black, or dark, or yellowish; or whether he comes from, such and such a village, or town, or city; or until I know whether the bow with which I was wounded was a chapa or a kodanda, or until I know whether the bow-string was of swallow-wort, or bamboo fiber, or sinew, or hemp, or of milk-sap tree, or until I know whether the shaft was from a wild or cultivated plant; or whether it was feathered from a vulture's wing or a herons or a hawk's, or a peacock's; or whether it was wrapped round with the sinew of an ox, or of a buffalo, or of a ruru-deer, or of a monkey; or until I know whether it was an ordinary arrow, or a razor-arrow, or an iron arrow, or of a calf tooth arrow. Before knowing all this, that man would die.
Similarly, it is not on the view that the world is eternal, that it is finite, that body and soul are distinct, or that the Buddha exists after death, that a religious life depends. Whether these views or their opposites are held, there is still rebirth, there is old age, there is death, and grief, lamentation, suffering, sorrow, and despair.... I have not spoken to these views because they do not conduce to absence of passion, or to tranquillity and Nirvana.
And what have I explained? Suffering have I explained, the cause of suffering, the destruction of suffering, and the path that leads to the destruction of suffering have I explained. For this is useful.
A leader is best
When people barely know that he exists.
Of a good leader; who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, ``We did this ourselves''
``The world is a bridge; pass over, but build no house upon it''
``There are three obstacles in life: greed, hatred, and delusion''
``Be as simple as possible, but not simpler than that.''
``Do one thing every day that scares you.''