"Fill your bowls to the brim and they will spill. Sharpen your blade to the sharpest and it will soon blunt."

"The best way to manage is to manage very little."

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

"One who makes promises rashly rarely keeps good faith; One who is in the habit of considering things easy meets with frequent difficulties."

"No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things... and at last become one with heaven and earth."