Callie Khouri's 11 rules to live by:

1. Save yourself several thousand dollars and start flossing like a maniac now.
2. Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life.
3. Never wear stockings that are darker than your shoes. Otherwise you get that Minnie Mouse look going and you want to avoid that.
4. Never argue with an idiot.
5. Practice everything in moderation except moderation, which you should practice in excess.
6. Be sure to have a hobby. 
7. Marry late.
8. Don't forget to check for change in the coke machine.
9. Keep track of your friends.
10. Life is short, so cram as much fun into it as you possibly can.
11. Be here now, and JUST DO IT.

http://gos.sbc.edu/k/khouri.html

Here's an article from Money Central that lists nine money rules to live by.

1. Know the difference between needs and wants.
2. Scarcity makes your choices for you
3. The pointlessness of the hedonic treadmill
4. Every money decision has a cost of its own
5. Why supply and demand rule
6. Throw no good money after bad
7. The role risk plays
8. The time value of money
9. The miracle of compound interest

Louis Beam's 12 Rules to Live by:

http://www.louisbeam.com/rulesto.htm

1. In all that you do, consider its benefit or harm to yourself, your children and your people.
2. All that you do will return to you, sooner or later, for good or ill. Thus strive to always do good unto others or at least strive to be just.
3. To thine own self be true. Be honest with yourself and with others.
4. Give your word but sparingly and then move heaven and earth to abide by it once given.
5. To keep ones head is a virtue, the anger of a moment can play havoc for years.
6. Know which battles to fight and which to avoid. Live today to fight tomorrow.
7. Courage and honor endure. Their echoes remain when all else has vanished.
8. Pledge friendship only to those who are worthy.
9. Do your best or do nothing.
10. Love and care for your family always.
11. Laws of the land are to be obeyed so long as they were chosen with wisdom and the good of the people in mind.
12. Your children are the promise of the future. Don't break a promise.
13. Live in harmony as best you can with the natural order of the world.
14. Seeking wisdom is a virtue. Love truth, honor, courage, and loyalty.
15. Be prepared for the future. It will be upon you tomorrow.
16. Embrace life and you will live.

Immaculate Heart College - Art Department Rules

1. Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
2. General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher, pull everything out of your fellow students.
3. General duties of a teacher: pull everything out of your students.
4. Consider everything an experiment.
5. Be self-disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
6. Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.
7. The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
8. Don’t try to create and analyse at the same time. They’re different processes.
9. Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.
10. “We’re breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.” - John Cage.
    

Helpful hints: Always be around. Come or go to everything always. Go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully often. Save everything, it might come in handy later.