"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense." ― Helen Gurley Brown Topic(s): Great More From Helen Gurley Brown "After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money." "Beauty can’t amuse you, but brainwork – reading, writing, thinking – can." "Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort." More In Great "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal."― Princess Diana "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel "When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‘I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,’ and so forth, I switch off quite early."― Christopher Hitchens