#advice

"If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer."

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

"There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions."

"Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones."

"I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward."

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."

"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"

"The best way to predict your future is to create it"

"My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice."

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

"A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."

"If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs."

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

"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."

"As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal."

"When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided."

"The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about."

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

"This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be along process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time."

"Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle."