The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.