Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.

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

Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.