Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.

Meditate… do not delay, lest you later regret it.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

The root of suffering is attachment.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Give, even if you only have a little.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self. 

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon

“Success always leaves footprints.” 

Character, not circumstances, makes the man

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him

“In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”

“Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.”

“The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.”

 It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges

. “It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.”

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

A whining crying race may be pitied but seldom respected.