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

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.

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.

You are not easily forgotten.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

You should RULE your money, Money shouldn't RULE your Life.

You're a dangerous fool who should be sent west, " he told the unconscious man. "You have forgotten the face of your father.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.

What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was.

Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.