Love is a taste of paradise.

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.

What weighs us down is not gravity! A little force of kindness can decelerate depravity.

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.