The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

The Tao is told is not the Tao.

The wise man knows he doesn't know.