“People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.”

“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.”

“Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.”

“It's always like a miracle. No matter how bad everything was on ordinary days, no matter how poor they seemed, on Yontev -- like on Shabbos -- they suddenly seemed rich.”

“I think you are seriously overestimating my dancing abilities. My kind of dancing usually ends up on the Internet, where people watch it so they can stop feeling sorry about their own lives. You know how people say they have two left feet? It's like I have no feet and my stumps are attached to wheels shaped like triangles.”

“people in general so often seem to get dumber in direct proportion to their academic training.”