Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle.

There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.

Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to sense-pleasures, nor does he cling to views, nor to precepts and vows, nor to a Self-doctrine. Not clinking, he is not disturbed; not disturbed, he attains individually nibbana.

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.