If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain. Live for others and will live again.

Power doesn't corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.