“Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”

“Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.”

Terry Pratchett book Carpe Jugulum

“Well, if there's no 'war' that begins, but you say 'war begins', no one's going to buy your newspaper the next day because they'll be on to the fact that you don't know what you're talking about.”

Sam Donaldson (1934) American journalist

“Phury?"
"No, I'm not gay."
"Don't feel like you need to hide it or anything."
"I wouldn't. I'm just not."
"You bi, then?”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

“He sighed. "I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?

"No.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

“I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

“I feel comfortably qualified to talk about anything, but that's a personal problem and I'm dealing with it.”

Max Barry (1973) Australian writer

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“Never Write an Advertisement Which You Wouldn't Want Your Own Family To Read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.”

David Ogilvy book Confessions of an Advertising Man

“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”

Tomie dePaola (1934) American children's illustrator and writer