The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.

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

If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.