Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.

What a strange power there is in clothing.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.