No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

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.

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

Wherever you are, be there with love.

I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of living in the moment, and spend every dull, amazing second with me.

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth?

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye.