If you would take, you must first give.

When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.

Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.

When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master's way.

If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.