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

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.

Love is a taste of paradise.

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

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.

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

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