Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

The longer you travel, the less you know.

If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'