Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

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

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

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

Gossip is nature's telephone.

To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.