The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in a book supposed to be holy, or because all your friends and neighbors believe it. But whatever you've observed and analyzed for yourself and found to be reasonable and good, then accept that and put it into practice.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.