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

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We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics...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.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

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.

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

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

The Biblical stories are sacred inspiration.

If you get your mind right, you get your life right.

He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne. [He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun.]

I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.

"A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand of God."

Confidence is the purity of action produced by a mind free of doubt.

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, "Could this happen to me? I know I'm being tempted."