"The pleasant and the unpleasant, the agreeable and the disagreeable, are not in things themselves, but in us."

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

"Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings."

"Irrigators channel waters, fletchers straighten arrows, carpenters bend wood, the wise master themselves."

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."