The one who rules like the mother lasts long.
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
He who knows, knows not. He who knows not, knows.
If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.