If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.

Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

The one who rules like the mother lasts long.

Bend and you will be straight.