Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.