The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

The brittle is easy to shatter.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.

The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.