"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."

"Act without action. Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose."

"Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Do not overdo it.)"

"Therefore even the sage treats some things as difficult. That is why in the end no difficulties can get the better of him."

"Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil."