A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

No disaster is worse than being discontented.

...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather retreat a foot.