“Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast salt and hesitation.”

“It is not upon thee to finish the work neither art thou free to abstain from it.”

“Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom his wisdom endures. And everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds his wisdom does not endure.”

“The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.”

“Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast salt and hesitation.”

“The sun will set without thy assistance.”

“Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.”

“The burden is equal to the horse's strength.”

“There are thousands of codes in the Torah which are decoded by the Talmud.”

“Where was this written? I wondered. Where in the Talmud or the Koran or the Bible did it say, "Lo, and Satan fetcheth the coffee for the Antichrist and her minions"?”

“I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.”