"People fail at the threshold of success. Be as cautious at the end as at the beginning. Then there will be no failure."

"The gentlest thing in the world can ride through the hardest thing in the world."

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

"When the best student hears about the Way, he practices it diligently. When the average student hears about the Way, he is half-hearted. When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud.…"

"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own."