If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.

Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.

The best fighter is never angry.

The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.

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.