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Stupid is as stupid does.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Reflections on Life.

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power, but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.