“A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself.”

We think too much and feel too little.

People’s affection hurts me but it’s a beautiful pain.

One cannot do humour without a great sympathy for one’s fellow man.

What a sad business, being funny.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Let’s call them years of a friendly misalliance.

The world cannot be wrong if in this world there’s you.

My costume helps me to express my conception of the average man, of almost any man, of myself.

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.

I am an artist. I am interested in life.

I see no tragedy in the loneliness of old age, only the convenience of it.

Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Deep down we all have a sense of our own inadequacy about coping with life.

The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose – if you embrace it you become one with it and you’ll be lived.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

What was dead will come to life when you pursue love.

The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.

I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.