Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

If you wish to succeed in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

In science as in art and as I believe in every other sphere of human activity there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors but it is only in one or two of them.

When I was seventeen I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.