"What is strong and rigid is snapped..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.”

“The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure.”

“High and low rest on each other.”

“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”

“I can operate in half-a-song format.”

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

“What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.”

“When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.”

“True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.”