Those who boast are not respected.

Use your light, but dim your brightness.

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

That which shrinks must first expand.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.