He who is kind to animals heaven will protect.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

The greatest victory is the one over oneself.

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).

Live in joy and love even among those who hate; live in joy and peace even among the troubled.

Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."