“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.”

“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”

“It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.”

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

“One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.”

“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.”

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”