A half-truth is a whole lie.

Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders

What you don't see with your eyes don't invent with your tongue.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.

The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

The hardest work is to go idle.

Truth is the safest lie.

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.

I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.

Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

It may seem like a big risk to follow your dream, but isn't the greatest risk of all to miss your life?