Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world - to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed.

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

In work, do what you enjoy.

The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.

There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It could be the mother of everything. Not knowing its name, I call it Tao.