The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Till the enemy's weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.