“The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.”

“Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.”

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.”

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name.”

“A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. When his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say: We did this ourselves.”

“He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”

“The time is always right to do what's right.”