Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) — "It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."

"If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your own path."

"Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way, if the root of craving is not wholly uprooted, suffering springs up again and again."

"The body, monks, is not self. If the body were the self, this body would not lend itself to dis-ease. It would be possible (to say) with regard to the body, 'Let my body be thus. Let my body not be th…"

"The wise man knows that he is a fool."

"The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast."