"He who stands on tiptoe does not..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.”

“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.”

“He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.”

“He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.”

“Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.”

“We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.”

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.”

“What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can't get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.”

“And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.”