advised

From my mother: "Good skin is better than good make-up, but would it kill you to put on some lipstick?"

From my dad (as he was teaching me to drive a beat-up Ford pickup with a flatbed and a snowplow): "Learn how to drive on the worst vehicle you can, because then everything else will seem easy."

From my grandpa: "Be game for anything."

From my grandma (as she was teaching me to bake a pie): "You can measure your ingredients, but eventually you'll learn to eyeball it. It just takes practice. And a lot of mistakes."

From my husband: "Just wear sweats. It makes getting to third base much easier."

From my best friend: "A good friend is someone you can talk to once a year, but it feels like you talk to them every day."

From my former coworker: "Don't marry the one you love the most, marry the one who irritates you the least."

From my viola teacher: "Sometimes you just have to start over with the basics before you can master the hard stuff."