Favorite advice

Tread lightly upon the Earth
Play good defense
Remember where you parked
Don't die guessing
Be a gift to others
Know how to keep a secret
Listen for the music of silence
You schmooze, you lose
The past is all in your head
The largest fish in the pond is always the most cautious
One spends the first half of life learning how to live; the second half learning how to die
Never bet the farm
As humans grappled to explain the universe, religion is supplanted by philosophy; philosophy is supplanted by science
Know your time to go
Remember that all religions, and all conceptions of God, are invented by the imaginations of men
Hear a voice other than your own
Sometimes the truth depends upon a walk around the lake
Innocence is not a vacuum to be filled with experience
The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness
Even Buddha had another step to take
Boredom is a failure of the imagination
Knowing is better than seeing
Write a little every day, without hope, without despair
Make something better
Bring something to the table
Promptly do what needs to be done
There are two kinds of people in the world: the one who comes home from a bad day at work and kicks his dog, and the one who gives his pup a good scratch behind the ears
Listening is loving
Deprivation breeds obsession
Max-out your 401(k) or equivalent employee contribution • Buy inexpensive, well-diversified mutual funds such as Vanguard Target funds • Never buy or sell an individual security; the person on the other side of the table knows more than you do about this stuff • Save 20% of your money • Pay your credit card balance in full every month • Maximize tax-advantaged savings vehicles like Roth, SEP, and 529 accounts • Pay attention to fees; avoid actively managed funds • If you use a financial advisor, select only one who commits to a fiduciary standard • Promote social insurance programs to help people when things go wrong.
When it comes to messing with your investments, this is frequently the best advice: don't do something--just stand there

The secret to walking on ice is to allow someone else to go first
Survival is a talent
The problem with history is that you can't go back and prove it wasn't so
Do what you say you will do
There's no such thing as a free puppy
Start out as you mean to go on
Make an effort
Never pass-up an opportunity to pee
Create something
You need to believe to be deceived
Use for yourself little, but give to others much
Never say something to your spouse that you wouldn't say on a first date
There are not degrees of compatibility, only degrees of acceptance
Live within your means
Possession is an illusion
Cut your spouse some slack
Be easy to live with
Things tend to go right very slowly—and wrong very quickly
Always go to bed hungry
Avoid going to bed angry
If you want to be liked, be likeable; if you want to be loved, be lovable
Living a life is like folding bed sheets: you can do it yourself, but it's a little easier if you find somebody to help
Leave the campground better than you found it
Tenacity is the mother of completion
Life is not a rehearsal, so you'd better get on with it
If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way
Go straight ahead until you hit something
If you're talking, you're not listening
All places are the same places with slightly different CSS
Ability has nothing to do with opportunity
Nothing is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it; the mere act of thinking about something makes it more important than it's going to be
Plan now -- to benefit your older self
If you do what you always do, you will get the same result
The grass is greenest where you water it
Soul-mates aren't found, they are made
In life as in art, the most important aspects are happening in the grays
It does not diminish you in the slightest to pay someone a complement.