Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives.

If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present.

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.