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.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

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.

Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".