If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."

The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.

Nature is not anthropomorphic.

Battles are followed by years of famine.