A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.

. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.

Battles are followed by years of famine.

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