Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.

Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.

To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.

This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.