We are what we think.

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape.

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

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.