The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

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.

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.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.