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

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.

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.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

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

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