Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.

A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

After 48 years, I have said nothing.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!