With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up, but an evil friend fortitude mouthful your intellect.

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

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.

We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.