With comedy I can search for the profound.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Let it be love, not the power of position that guides you for your success.

Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.

The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?