"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence."

"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'"

"The empire is a sacred vessel and cannot be acted on. He who acts on it harms it; he who grasps it loses it."

"Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it."

"He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act."