The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

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

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

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.

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.