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

My tramp is made up of mimicry.

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

The desire for peace is universal.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.

I’m unconscious while I’m acting. I live the role and am not myself.

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

In all truth there is the seed of falsehood.

That is all there is in life – beauty. You find that and you have found everything.

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

By simple common sense I don’t believe in God, in none.

In the end, everything is a gag.

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

Machinery should be a blessing to mankind and not a curse.

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.

I’m a juvenile product of the working class, who’s best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

I don’t think you can measure wealth in dollars and cents. I really don’t believe that at all because there are some things that money cannot buy. One of them is health. And the other is security in your relationships and friends.

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.

If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.

Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they’re only made of sand.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.