Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

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

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

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.

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.

To those who can hear me, I say -- do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed -- the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.