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.

Train your eyes and ears; train your nose and tongue. The senses are good friends when they are trained. Train your body in deeds, train your tongue in words, train your mind in thoughts. This training will take you beyond sorrow.

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

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

Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.