To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
Deal with the small before it becomes large.
It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.