H. Jackson Brown Jr.

[1][2][3] Its sequel Life's Little Instruction Book: Volume 2 also made it to the same best seller list in 1993.

Before becoming a writer, he acted as a creative director of an advertising agency in Nashville.

He graduated from Emory University in 1962 and was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.

[8] This book contained 511 reminders about "how to live a happy and rewarding life" and became a best-seller worldwide.

They have spawned calendars, posters, apparel items, daily journals, greeting cards, audiocassettes, screensavers and fortune cookies.

Horace Jackson Brown Jr. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."