A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

Confucius

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

Buddha

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

Marcus Aurelius

When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

Buddha

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

D.T. Suzuki