Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.

Yielding, like ice about to melt.

The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.