All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

The worst men often give the best advice.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ‚cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven’t been in a high school for about a year. So um, it’s kinda interesting coming back, and y’know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

If I ever had twins, I’d use one for parts.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I’d ever have any interest in filmmaking.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.