“The kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing.”

“To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.”

“I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.”

“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.”

“If any one should wish to get the kingdom for himself, and to effect this by what he does, I see that he will not succeed.”

“All things return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it is it which presides over their doing so;—it may be named in the greatest things.”

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”