Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Live in joy and love even among those who hate; live in joy and peace even among the troubled.

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.

Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views