Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.

A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.