All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand. ...Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.