Stillness is the ruler of haste.

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.