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

There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought to anything, and comprehend everything. 'Blessed hands' is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.

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.

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.

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

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