Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.

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

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

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.

Love Life's Loves

Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties, he said.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

The idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, as opposed to an economic presence, is going to create a new wave of hostility toward the United States.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?

That means I gotta fly like a movie no commercial That's Young Money, Cash Money yeah I'm universal