A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.

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

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

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.