“Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.”

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Silence is a source of Great Strength.

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

When there is no desire, all things are at peace.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready. The teacher will Disappear.

The road you can talk about is not the road you can walk on.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change.

The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy.

If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, ’cause if you’re not a friend to yourself, you’re an enemy to yourself and if someone’s a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.