Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

You must never tire fighting Satan.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.