“Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for...” — Julian Baggini Quote

“Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.”

“Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.”

“Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.”

“No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can't decide to want anything, but what you want will at least in part be a result of a series of other choices and judgments you've made in your life to date.”

“If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.”

“The Golden Rule will always be good advice!”

“I haven't gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don't know.”

“It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.”

“In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.”

“The best piece of advice I've received is find a mentor, but also mentor others. You have two hands, so reach up, look for as many mentors as you can to get where you want to go, but never forget that you have another hand, and you have to reach down and lift others up, too.”

“I was fortunate to benefit from Secretary Shultz's advice and counsel when I served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan.”