Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.

Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.

Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.