Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.