All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win.

We are all capable of much more than we think we are.

The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.

Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}

Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.