The high must make the low its base.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

The perfect square lacks corners.

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.