Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know.

Life is going forth; death is returning home.

To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.