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

Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders

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.

You know that song, 'Woodstock.' It says 'We are stardust.' And we are. We come from stardust. Everything on earth is just ashes.

To be a man will continue to demand a heroic heart as long as mankind is not quite human.

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

You are my glue. Without you, I'd be nothing but broken pieces.

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.