People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.

The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."

That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.

When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.

The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.