When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

The natural laws of the universe are inviolable... what you say and do determines what happens in your life... You are the master of your life and death. What you do is what you are.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly.