To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.

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.

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

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn't want to hear in the first place.

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.