Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.

Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

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 Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.

Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.