My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should be speaking Hebrew. Why are you talking to him in Yiddish?" The mother answered, "I don't want he should forget he's a Jew."

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.