A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

The root of suffering is attachment