Give full attention and devotion to each act.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

Love the people with whom fate brings you together

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.