When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.