Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.

The best way to carve is not to split.