I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.