God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.