Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.

Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.

There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.