If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

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.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

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

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

General consultant to mankind.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

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

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 always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

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

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

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I’m still sort of an invalid now.

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.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.