The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are not. When you extend your virtue in all directions without discriminating, you feet are firmly planted on the path that returns to the Tao.

Kindness in words creates confidence.

The brittle is easy to shatter.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.

The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.