If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.

These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.