Love is a taste of paradise.

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

When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.

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.