In the book, The Outsiders, what advice would you give Ponyboy?For example, Dally told him "stay tuff and nothing can hurt you, stay smart and...

I guess this is sort of cliche and trite, but I think that I would tell him that he needs to be true to who he is, not to who someone else thinks that he needs to be.  I think that this is good advice for anyone.

I think that Pony, in this book, is at times being pushed to be someone he does not really want to be.  He is being pushed to be more of a gang banger than he really wants to be.  So I would tell him that he needs to stay true to himself.

I actually don't think that that goes against either of the two pieces of advice you list here, though.