You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.
Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.