All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.

Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.