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French mime artist Marcel Marceau, that familiar sad white-faced clown in a striped pullover with a battered hat, passed away at 84 today..

A master of the art of mime, Marceau, and the character Bip he created in 1947, was a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations.

"Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities," he once said.

In mime, Marceau said, gestures express the essence of the soul's most secret aspiration.

"To mime the wind, one becomes a tempest. To mime a fish, you throw yourself into the sea." So Zen-like.

I'll remember him for the famous words he so well said: "Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? "