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.

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.

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.

Persistent work always brings a person successful results

The world is not a great place because racist people come with a race type of agenda, and it don't make the world great, it makes it worst than ever.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Whenever something good happens write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

I used to hate being recognised.

I belong to the Democratic Party.

Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?

I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure.