I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!

Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.

It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.