All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

The world may be known Without leaving the house.

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.

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."

We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.