Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.

...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

A good speaker does not stutter.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.