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

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.