To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

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

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.