My Favorite Life Advice so far...

I've interviewed about 90 people so far and now that a year has passed it got me thinking about what has been my favorite advice. I didn't have the time to transcribe all of my interviews but I was looking them over and these five popped out at me. I grabbed the parts that I loved the most. You'll love them, too... unless you're missing a soul. Click on their names if you want to see the videos.

Mollie Pier - All I can tell you as a young person really just starting out in life is that things aren’t always wonderful. They’re not always perfect. But if you’re determined and you put yourself in a position where you let the world know who you are and what you are, somehow something will come home to roost. You know, we don’t have much choice in many, many things that happen in our lives. The only thing we have choice over is our attitude and how we accept things that happen and how we cope with them. And that’s what you have to learn is coping with the hard things in life and loving and appreciating the good things that happen.

Jimmy Steig - Just do the best you can, try the best you can, and be easy on yourself. Be very forgiving to yourself. Be a good person. The rest will take care of itself.

Jon Voight - Cherish the beautiful things you have, take care of your health and go forward and be a good guy – be one of the good guys. When it's all finished look back and say ‘I was one of the good guys’ - and then you'll be fine.

Roy Battocchio - Stay young. You’re going to age in years but I think you’re going to have to have an attitude of feeling young, acting young, thinking young… that to me [is] very important, and what keeps that going is a good sense of humor. I’ve always found that to be… [With perfect timing, Roy fakes a sneeze and surprises me by making it look like a golf ball came out of his nose] I just threw that in there. See, now that’s an old joke but I figured that would be nice. And that’s it. Keep that sense of humor all the time. It’s not easy but keep it.

Tom Waldeck – Don’t get old. No, keep moving. That’s the trick is keep doing new things and keep moving ‘cause you get plenty chance to rest when you’re dead. I made lots of mistakes, sure. That’s how you learn. You make mistakes. You hope that you survive the mistakes. You hope that you don’t hurt too many people by making the mistakes… I think everybody should go for everything in life all the time. And there shouldn’t be any difference of when you’re 65 or 75 or 25. That’s what you should do is just keep going for things. You know, as long as you’re healthy and you can do it, and you can afford what you want to do… sitting on a porch and reading a book for the rest of your life, you know really is a waste. It’s a waste of a life.