Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That's the best advice I could ever give someone.

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

Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.

Don't look back unless it's a good view.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course, which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations.