If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.

Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?

The words of truth are always paradoxical.