You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.

Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed impossible.

I am a citizen of the world.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table.

If you’re really truthful with yourself, it’s wonderful guidance.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life – doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

The deeper the truth in creative work, the longer it will live.

What a sad business, being funny

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature — or go insane.