Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.

Wherever you are, you have to work for your living.

We think it is inexcusable for a Web site dedicated to providing credible advice to the American public to include an advertisement from a company that sells more cigarettes to more people than any other...

Protect your dreams from your nightmare

…write your own part. It is the only way I’ve gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what...

Y así, del mismo modo que un amateur de las letras no debe cometar la imprudencia de embarcarse y tratar de cruzar el piélago literario, así una aficionada a las flores no tiene por qué...

I’m very wary about giving advice. I think it’s very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

At their core, Tiger Eyes, Forever…, and Sally J. Freeman are all books about teenage issues, but to an adult reader, the parents’ story lines seem to almost overshadow their daughters. I’m bringing an entirely...

Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.

It looked like I (asked Phillips for advice), didn’t it?.

Don’t ask for directions if you’re not going to start the car.

Discover your voice. Then follow it with no fear. Wherever it leads, there is the goal of your life, there is your destiny.

We in urgent need of sound advice from foreigners.

Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we...

Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant.

Paying attention is more important to reliability than moving slowly. Because he pays close attention, a Navy pilot can land a 40,000 lb. aircraft at 140 miles per hour on a pitching carrier deck, at...

It’s because you’re young and you refuse to acknowledge what you are. What it means. What it promises. You’re fighting your condition, and that makes it almost impossible for you to control yourself. You need...

Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

They’re not really out there. The best advice I can say is to book early. It’s not a procrastinator’s market like it used to be. It used to be that planes were going out half-full...

Oh, Mona, we’re all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don’t be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for that matter. Laugh...

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.

Today may be your last chance to be you, someone you forgot to completely immerse yourself in because you were too worried about the details. The details that, no matter how many times you thought...

Do not be afraid. Look fear in the face and say, “fuck you” and move on.

I think the reason why people’s relationships fail, really, is due to the fact that people are always putting their best feet forward all the time and not letting others actually “meet” them. The “meeting”...

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain’s advice on vice presidential nominees.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Often the best advice is not to seek advice.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse. And vice versa.

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it’ll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.

Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being – head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Darkness will make you strong.

We get along well. He gave me some good advice. I gave him some advice on domestic policy areas,

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you’re that age, it will cause you pain when you’re older.

Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he’s rife and never get stuck to another man’s pfife.

What defines our world; believes, thoughts, dreams, decisions, choices and actions.

Don’t settle for being an option; become a priority.

The focus on the desired outcome will push you through every difficulty.

If we don’t protect what we have, it will be destroyed.

All souls have a body.

Hold on to hope and positive thoughts; strength for thy soul.

Formerly…when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity…for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it were agreeable, but the activity itself was always unsatisfactory; there was...

Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.” -Diana

Be careful who you call crazy. Some of us think it’s a compliment.

peculiar” – than anything else.But when you do laugh, let your belly shimmy.

Correct the blunders on your face made through self-delusion – this would be far more fitting than to want to teach me, which is just as if a sow trying to teach Minerva.

Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.