Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

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

Your dreams are desperately counting on you to introduce them to their realities.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

If you desire to see, learn how to act.

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

But you know what? There's far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding.

Death is the only real elegance.