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.

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

Focusing on the past is only a barricade to the future. Once you overcome that barricade, the possibilities are endless.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

I have trust issues.”“I know. I’m on a mission to cure you of that.

I do so hate to leave this world.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

The annoying thing about being modest is that you can't brag about it.

I am no dummy, mate, that's for sure.

My body is the fruit of spirits' play.