Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs