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.

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.

Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.

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

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

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

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.