Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature: when it blows, there is only wind; when it rains, there is only rain; when the clouds pass, the sun shines through. If you open yourself to the Tao, you are at one with the Tao and you can embody it completely. If you open yourself to insight, you are at one with insight and you can use it completely. If you open yourself to loss, you are at one with loss and you can accept it completely. Open yourself to the Tao, then trust your natural responses; and everything will fall into place.

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

You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.

Practice non-action. Work without doing.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.