If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.