Be who you are, and go the whole way.

You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.

The brittle is easy to shatter.

The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.

When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.