When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.