Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.

The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete.

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.