Worries go down better with soup than without.

Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders

What you don't see with your eyes don't invent with your tongue.

When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.

The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

The hardest work is to go idle.

Truth is the safest lie.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

Every day is President's Day when you have an intern!

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way