If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.

If you correct your mind the rest of your life will fall into place.

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.