'For example' is not proof.

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.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Jo dimaag ki dahi banaaye, uski lassi kardo, aur chill maro. (If someone makes curd of your brain then churn them to buttermilk and chill).

I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.

I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.

In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.