The master dwells in the substantial and not in the superficial. Rests in the fruit and not in the flower.

Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice.

If you know when to stop, you'll suffer no harm. And in this way you can last a very long time.

Our enemies are not demons, but human beings like ourselves.

The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike.

There is no illusion greater than fear.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.