It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.