The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.