When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.

When you accept yourself, the Universe accepts you.

Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him.