Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.

With our thoughts we make the world.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.