Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

The separate parts make no carriage.

He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Requite injury with kindness.