My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.

To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.

You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.

It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.

The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.