A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

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.

When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

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

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.