As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

What's done to the children is done to society.

But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.