Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.

The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.

The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.