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 don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

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

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

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

When in doubt, don’t.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

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

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

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

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

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

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.

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

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

The worst men often give the best advice.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It’s in the apartment somewhere.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

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

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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.‘

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Common sense is not so common.

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

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.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

I think I’ve really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I’ve put it behind me for the time being.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

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