You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.
Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.
To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.
It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.
I never turn down a drink. Among friends it’s always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You’ll find that in the Talmud too.