"To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings."

"Again, bhikkhus, as though he were to see a corpse thrown aside in a charnel ground, one, two, or three days dead, bl…"

"He still had that marvelous swing, and what a follow-through, just beautiful, like a great golfer. But he was forty y…"

"To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul."

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itsel…"

"It's our mortality that defines us, Soran. It's part of the truth of our existence."

"You mortals are so obtuse! Why do you persist in believing that life and death are such static and rigid concepts? Wh…"

"You must drink quickly as from a rapid stream that will not always flow."

"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay,…"

"Mortality is man's invention; not in the logic of life."