Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?

Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.