Deal with the small before it becomes large.

Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!

If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.