No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn't want to hear in the first place.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.

Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.

The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.