Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward

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.

Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.

He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred