A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.
He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
It's a good thing to be satisfied with what one has.
Imagination is more important than knowledge...