The hardest work is to go idle.

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.

Truth is the safest lie.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

They wanted me as coach.

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

You, of all people, deserve a happy ending.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.