"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot"

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

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."

"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves."

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."

"The best things in life don't make sense."

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures..."

"Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass."

"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."