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"His Restfulness is easily maintained. Events foreseen by him are easily arranged for. By him weak things are easily bent, And small things are easily scattered. He can stop an evil before it comes into existence. He can keep a twig straight before it becomes crooked. Behold the girth of this tree! It grew from a small filament of a stalk. This tower of nine stories has its base upon a small space on the earth. The journey of a thousand miles began with a footstep on the ground. He who makes, unmakes. He who grasps, lets go. That is why the self-controlled man by Inner Life can make and by Inner life unmake, by Inner Life can grasp and by Inner Life let go. Men in business affairs come near perfection, then fail. If they were as attentive at the end as at the beginning their business would succeed. That is why the self-controlled man desires to have no wishes; he sets no value upon rare objects; he learns without study; he helps all beings by the outflow of his personality; and he does this without planning to do it."