The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.