Laozi — "Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."

"Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord."

"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."

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

"The sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as foreign to him, and yet it is preserved."

"Lightly given promises must meet with little trust."