Seeing the small is called clarity.

Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.

Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block.

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

. . . 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.