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."

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.

Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.