In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.