The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.

Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

There is no illusion great than fear.

The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.