When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win.

There is no greater mistake than to make light of an enemy By making light of an enemy many a kingdom has been lost.

The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block.