Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.