“The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness.”

“This is the thing we must guard against: that others' expectations, especially our families', do not become our own.”

“We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.”

“A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.”

“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.”

“We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.”