Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

Do not be ashamed of help.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.