I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.