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.

The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless.

The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.