Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.