Make of yourself a light.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

It is your mind that creates the world.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.

Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.