"Keep your mouth shut, guard your senses, and you will be free from trouble. Open your mouth, always be busy, and you will be beyond hope."

"The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting."

"Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more precious?"

"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."

"The sage puts his person last, and it comes first. He treats his person as an outsider, and it is preserved."