Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

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.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.