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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

You are not in business to be popular.

The hardest part has been maintaining a small head remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are. This business has changed a lot of good people and a lot of good families, and I don't want that to happen to me.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. .

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are, without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.