If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.

A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

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