• Measure twice; cut once. Or try not to cut at all.
• Read more than you speak.
• Share energy and enthusiasm; keep opinion to yourself.
• Wear your heart in public but vent your spleen alone.
• Don’t keep lists of disappointment.
• You can touch people at a distance while not feeling someone close at hand.
• The dictionary often has more truth and wisdom than does Holy Writ.
• Be careful not to bury dreams and aspirations too quickly; they often only appear to be dead.
• Teeth placed beneath your pillow turn to cash; don’t buy candy with it.
• Bask in friendships whether they last a week or fifty years.
• Intimacy requires no physical contact.
• Political correctness is always political but rarely correct.
• Wisdom is simply the dawning awareness of ignorance.
• Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, criticize.

A few of these I wrote myself. Remind me, when I return to old ways.