Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

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.

Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it.

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.