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.
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.
They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace — Says Alice.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.