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.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

This face was given to me by God!

The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.

I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age.

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored