"I am not a politician, I am an entertainer. My job is to make people laugh, to make them forget their troubles, to make them happy."

"I am a gentleman. I am a poet. I am a dreamer. But I am also a survivor."

"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury."

"I have no patience with people who are always complaining. Life is too short for that."

"The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress."