Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Better is to bow than break.

Pauling scooped out a hollow on the narrow ledge and covered himself with a big map he carried in his pocket. He dared not sleep because of the cold. He counte…