Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.

To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.