Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.

Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

The more you know the less you understand.

That which shrinks must first expand.