Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.